this ship is designed almost identically to the bulk area in this room almost identical to the one that children on that ship played in but for whatever reason their fate was very different. to in the end. as crowds gathered in remembrance of those killed by the sinking of the volga pleasure boat it was the younger victims that seem to cast the longest shadow. these schoolgirls had lost one of their classmates. to the most we studied together for a year she never had arguments with a new one she was a very kind girl and was always ready to help. as divers reached the playroom one of the bokhari is upper decks they found the bodies of the children that had gathered there just before the boat sunk. in that once inside the boat the bodies

were everywhere again the corridors and cabins as most of them were wearing the lifeless divers now have the awful task of bringing the bodies to the surface those left behind can only wonder at how fast their families were torn apart. our colleague was on that ship she went on a cruise together with her family husband five year old son and all say she was pregnant and was to deliver her second baby in august has not found yet only her husband managed to survive she and her son died. and for those children left suddenly without parents the terrible truth they may not be able to comprehend for years she lost her mother and father we're old but we'll have to look after her now she's only want to a few years old but you know it's just tell her we can't. you wouldn't understand.

there is much that people don't understand about this disaster reports about the ship's engines failing about blocked emergency exits and electricity failure that stopped any s.o.s. or evacuation instructions going out criminal cases have been opened into why two ships passing straight after the sinking didn't stop to pick up a single person into why the aging vessel was allowed to sail in the first place but for those who have lost loved ones the case will never be closed on bottom r.t. and on our website r.t. dot com you can read the account of one man who alone saved almost eighty people from the. many appraise the captain of the only ship that stopped and helped the stricken pleasure cruiser he modestly points to his crew and passengers as the real heroes he said that everyone was touched by what they saw and rushed to help without hesitation he went on to describe help they took their own clothes and gave

them to the will this morning website r.t. dot com. washington says it will consider a proposal from moscow to reopen talks with iran over its nuclear program idea suggest making limited concessions to terror and if it goes along with the demands of the international community the statement comes after u.s. secret state hillary clinton held talks with russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov in washington they also touched on libya with mr lavrov saying that russia has more understanding on the issue with the u.s. than with some of its european partners let's get the latest from marty's going to count she's in washington. with regards to leave here both russia and the u.s. have the view that colonel gadhafi must step down and that the leaders should be able to choose their future leader it's the path towards those aims that moscow and washington disagree on the world russia criticizes the scope of the into the foreign intervention in libya possible sees the actions of the allied force forces there as

a violation of the un mandate minister lavrov said the resolution is being wrongly interpreted as anyone can do whatever they want for a minister was also asked about why russia is blocking a u. and they should have to condemn the syrian president assad he said the attitude of the west is exclusively about exerting pressure on one of the parties namely the syrian government and president all side of moscow sees it as sees it as the wrong attitude question says it sends the wrong message to the syrian opposition prompting them to believe that if they were remain insistent in the situation keeps getting critical the west will come to help them the way it is happening in libya mr lavrov said it's unacceptable that the opposition will resort to violence agitating peaceful protesters into engaging in armed clashes and effectively turning them into a target for the police and security forces take a listen you know to deploy. diplomacy exists not to condemn and score political points diplomacy exists to solve problems and naked condemnation without proposing

any solution won't leaders to any breakthrough neither in syria nor in any other place there is a good example of how we are dealing with the situation in yemen no one is proposing to condemn anyone or adult the u.n. security council resolution supporting one or another signed everyone is. down and hold negotiations dance a responsible approach that we hope will prevail well on bilateral issues there have been some agreements and disagreements as usual but top diplomats bravely focused on agreements both pointed out the positive and constructive manner. in which the cooperation between the two countries is going on many issues in the last few years russian the us of a landmark deal on arms reduction the cooperation on of have gone forward in preparations for russia's accession into the world trade organization the obama administration is all for it and hillary clinton has once again stressed the american leadership support for russia joining the w t o also

they have signed a long awaited agreement on adoption after scores of horrible incidents involving russian children mistreated by their adoptive parents in a number of cases murdered by russia had to stress the need for an agreement and a better oversight over how the adopted children are treated in their new families and the deal finally came through the points in vision there included a ban on independent adoption adoptions will only be conducted via licensed agencies also the agreement states that all the children from our show will retain their russian citizenship until they reach legal adulthood that is very important as the agreement states that applicable laws from both countries will be used to add adoption related trials up until recently the americans did not want to hear anything about taking russian laws into account now as for disagreements russia's missile defense plans excuse me america's missile defense plans is one of the most irritating issues in the relations between the two countries you could sense that both foreign minister lavrov and secretary of state clinton preferred not to go

into details and talk much about disagreements but nevertheless we know that there has been discussions behind closed doors president obama has scrapped the bush administration missile defense plans but they're going ahead with a new plan for the larger offset russians need for a legally binding guarantees that the project will not threaten russia's security washington has made reassuring statements before but moscow needs to have it on paper so there is an understanding among the russians that words are good but words in a legally binding document are better but again no specific comments on that yet. going to town talking to be a little earlier there from washington this is r.t. live in moscow still to come on the program this hour we report on the deadly terror attack on mumbai which police suspect is the work of homegrown militants. but first rupert murdoch's media empire has announced it's to withdraw its bid to buy outright control of the u.k.'s biggest satellite broadcaster b. sky b.

it's the latest twist to the phone hacking crisis that's ingolf the company of the scandal goes global across the atlantic it's claimed that journalist tried to bribe new york police officers for access to the voicemail of nine eleven victims u.s. senators are also now calling for their own investigation into news corps and the british prime minister david cameron has also demanded the probe into the nine eleven paul ash maher who is an investigative reporter and head of journalism at bruno university told me earlier that the story's gone beyond the u.k. and well beyond just hacking into voice mail. and the events that we've seen over the last couple of weeks of extraordinary what was a u.k. story is now that can tell you should know spread through the u.k. right out now into united states and australia well it poses quite a big threat to david cameron because it's the first time we've seen in his judgment quite clearly brought seriously into question the decision to use and be

called who had been the editor of the news of the world when some of these events were taking place as his press advisor was clearly a very very bad judgment and strong in it and he now is trying his best to make clear blue water between him and news international but we've got the fact that the appears to be some hacking into gordon brown's private life you have to say you have to start to wonder what else is in there and of course it's not only it's not just phone hacking it's now the use of what we call bloggers these are people to information what should be private sources like medical records tax records so it's develop as we speak. the explosive mixture of media and politics in the hacking scandal that's gripping the world's attention is also discussed in today's edition of cross talk you can join peter bell this hour but for now here's a quick preview. in this particular case with news of the world it looks more and

more like you had reporters and editors who are engaging in criminal conduct there is no concept of free press anywhere in the world that enables journalists to break the law if someone hacked my voicemail i would love to see them in jail but if you look at the criticisms that are being leveled at murdoch it goes far beyond that people are using this as an opportunity to attack him for his politics and for his stridency as far as partisanship. and. crosstalk come your way very shortly this ninety three explosions that struck the indian city of mumbai reports at least twenty one people have been killed and over one hundred injured a correspondent is in india for us. three bomb explosions occurred within minutes of each other and this happened in very crowded neighborhoods one was

a famous jewelry market there was a bomb that was said to be found in a jewelry shop also near the offer a house in mumbai. in the western state of maharashtra obviously a very important city in india considering the financial capital here the ministry of home affairs has said that this is a terror attack the most recent terrorist attack. eight it was the serious that shootings that happened in the taj hotel it was that two have been terrorist actually the pockets than the great service otherwise known as the i.s.i. were held responsible for those attacks back in two thousand and eight two years prior to that in two thousand and six another series of coordinated attacks that happened on seven different trains in india that with that two have been the students islamic movement of india one by is still trying to deal with those two recent attacks then now this is happening and people are just left wondering how this could have occurred so soon after those two thousand and eight attacks. in

india and police suspect in this group called the india mujahideen is behind the three explosions in mumbai that means they could have been organized from abroad says usher is key to his investigations at the. weekly magazine in mumbai. well you know with. chad we will go on tell more do you a lot of good muslim you are being formed because of this group. this group basically has logical international support or because the border pakistan's i.s.i. has been telling his group i do. feel like you can support from glasgow if they build. the kind of nation which was you know you can do six eleven kind of attack less going to go bad has been no giulini this term or doing it in jamile the last seven eight years there have been providing logistical interventions of who had been treated in. secret or high dose in pakistan and allowed them to come

back into india and then the remaining catch or all the decor law emails. boxes back in pakistan and getting them concluded by them and plan to go to strike eagle eyed nation. building in pakistan. the eurozone has been dealt a fresh blow as arlen's debt is downgraded to junk status by the credit rating agency moody's feuding concerns the country could need a second bailout this comes a week after portugal's rating was also reduced and follow speculation that italy too might soon ask for helping hand paul not for any pay for northwest england has told r.t. the latest developments prove that the single currency union is simply not working . this was always about politics it was not about economics the idea that you could have a commie in the mediterranean in line with economies like germany fast growing economies like germany was never going to where the only way to get out of this mess is for those countries to go back on their national policies to devalue to get growth

moving. into exports going in at the moment they can't reduce their debt because they couldn't see these are controlled by frankfurt they're controlled by the european central bank they're not controlled by athens or lisbon or even though we see the people out on the streets in athens and i just wonder how long it will be before the people out in the streets in rome run in lisbon and talk about this thing is contagious this thing will move right across the continent specifically in the mediterranean and the bigger issue now facing the european union is italy is really is the third largest economy in the eurozone largest economy in the world i think the eurozone can actually cope with greece and portugal the smaller economies if italy goes the whole thing could cave in because if italy goes italy's economy intertwined with spain and of spain and italy go then we are in serious trouble the euro is inextricably to the whole project and it's linked to the european union if the eurozone goes quite frankly you can see this whole thing breaking go but that

is why they're so desperate to keep it that's why this whole desperate to say that we in the u.k. are fed up with bailouts are the only way for these countries to survive is to break out of this prison which is the euro zone. when a brief look at some other international news in a world update this thousands of protesting in the capital the six day running demanding the removal of the military council and threatening to expand their city and the cities demonstrators are also calling for president hosni mubarak and his aides to face prosecution for the killing of hundreds of protesters during the uprising in february the military is one protest against using violence but said it wouldn't try to stop the rally. the half brother of the afghan president hamid karzai has been buried in kandahar. ahmed wali karzai was murdered in his home there on choose day the taliban is described assassination as their biggest achievement in ten years shortly after the ceremony two explosions were reported in kandahar and a regional governor narrowly escaped a roadside bombing on his way to

a funeral. just remind you plenty of other stories lined up for you on our web page as r.t. dot com here's what's online there at the moment should you log on before the world's most famous whistle blower after the high court in london defers his extradition to sweden and also the u.s. army comes under attack as hackers released the e-mail addresses and passwords of almost one hundred thousand soldiers this and plenty more for you just one click away at r.t. dot com. labib out with the some of our main news stories in ten minutes from now in the meantime we also the man in charge of the anti drug effort here in russia other countries tackling the flow of illegal substances from central asia and europe so our special interview next on r.t. .

the problem of drugs and drug trafficking go anywhere no matter how much we fight it. to talk about the details of his fight and the problems that. drugs on the global scale. thank you very much for joining us today according to a. more than seven thousand people have died in russia. since the beginning of the year at the same time there are. number is actually more than one hundred thousand and that is actually. in the numbers.

the figure of seven thousand. number of people who actually died from poisoning that is they took such huge doses that their organs failed most drug users however died from overdosing. the reason for most drug related deaths is fairly regular consumption according to. russia is. what is the. drug users. those are in fact common for the whole world i mean police all over the world europe or america only managed to confiscate around ten percent of illegally traded drugs within their countries another thing is the extremely low efficiency of our borders and their administrative and legal methods lead to the

very good only not point two percent of all drugs are intercepted at the borders drugs that get into russia first have to go through the states of central asia where they're not intercepted those states themselves above all are victims of afghanistan's enormous drug production. as a matter of fact afghanistan itself is the victim of global drug mafia work which creates the demand and the political will to continue production in the country. this is why countries next have the greatest density of drugs. simply because they are closer to the epicenter further away the drug flows splits into lots of different channels and then drugs get to russia for example through the seven thousand kilometer border with because it's done. so their parents as well. testing people on mass would be far too radical no of course not we're talking about establishing an early warning system to detect

drug addicts and abusers after all people are not born addicted to drugs it all starts with experimenting mostly and. when kids start spending more time on the streets away from their parents that's when they get to know drugs this needs to be detected at an early stage and if parents are warned in advance sometimes it just takes parental action and advice to put an end to these dangerous practices if not stopped in time these experiments later lead to regular consumption which in turn requires longer and more costly treatment. according to. what you're. i have to say that we rejected this kind of conclusion so did my colleagues in the u.s. russia presidential commission mr gil kerlikowske harsh statement we discussed it immediately with washington over the hotline and criticized the global commission

legalizing drugs is a road to nowhere more than that it will result in the growth of drug. let me remind you of a referendum on legalizing marijuana in california in september last year i was there when it was held where we decided with mr gil kerlikowske at a number of meetings with officials including the man the sheriff the chief of police the prosecutor respectable professions have a clear position against a legalizing marijuana and the referendum confirms that it should not be legalized . as far as the withdrawal from afghanistan is concerned the picture is unclear so far it was said that the withdrawal would start and certain parameters for it had been set mention thirty thousand troops by the end of the year but when i was in washington last september they were talking about the need to increase the military contingent in afghanistan exactly by thirty thousand now they're planning to return

these thirty cells and so in fact nothing has changed i think the world community and you can disagree is beginning to consider the situation in afghanistan several reasons behind it as. a military operation and the decision of the world community to interfere in the fair's of this for the country. to put an end to the taliban rule to set up an interim administration and hold free elections. these tasks were supposed to be in six or twelve months but this september we'll see the tenth anniversary of that interference it's longer than world war two but the situation in afghanistan hasn't improved it's become even worse and. general petraeus for example was commanding the military operation in. says that the number of armed clashes there increases year after year in fact the number of armed clashes over the past ten years has increased more than a hundred times have the assigned tasks been achieved. security in afghanistan has

only gotten worse because it said that drug production cannot be fought because damage is the security situation in the country so it's a kind of closed circle in this respect to the be worthwhile to know a nato operation in helmand province which produces the most opium poppies the operation is called. which translated from persian means together. the operation was presented as a brilliant military success considerable kilometers of the province were reportedly cleared of insurgents but the production of opium has never stopped that's why peaceful settlement is necessary but we've started talking about this at long last it was highlighted at the london conference on afghanistan in two thousand and ten the autumn conference in kabul also stressed the need to find a peaceful settlement but the latest initiative was voiced by the us president barack obama on negotiations with the taliban and the latest resolutions of the united nations security council which divided responsibility between the taliban and al qaeda are offering a unique opportunity in my view to drop

a program of eliminating drug production i've just come from meeting of the parliamentary faction of the progressive alliance of socialists and democrats the second largest faction in the european union here outside the european parliament building we discussed the e.u. strategy towards afghanistan large sections of that strategy are devoted to liquidation of drugs production strategy matches very well with the russian. to liquidate the production of drugs in afghanistan in fact the direction that russia and the european union are taking together very well so today we have a unique opportunity for resolution and decisive action. thank you very much for speaking with us today but still thank you very much.

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this is good to have you with us this hour top stories now the bodies of over one hundred people including many children have been recovered from the site of sunday's sinking of a pleasure cruiser rescuers continue the search for more as a round of thirty remain missing. rupert murdoch's bid for the u.k.'s biggest satellite broadcaster b. sky b. crumbles under political pressure as the hacking scandal spreads beyond britain sentences and. reports that journalists from murdoch's papers tried to bribe police for information following. the eurozone economic crisis. junk fueling fears the country may need a second. similar predictions were made about portugal with italy also tipped to

be a risk. for me today the news continues in less than half an hour from now here in the meantime it's cross talk and discuss the repercussions of the phone hacking scandal that is gripping britain that's next. if you can. follow in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle an empire in disarray rupert murdoch and his immense media assets are under investigation in what is being called voicemail gate is this scandal all about murdoch and his sleazy business practices or a media that no longer serves the public good. and . the crosstalk media today

i'm joined by tony pedersen in dallas he's a professor and bell distinguished chair in journalism at southern methodist university in los angeles we cross the fattiest russell he's a historian and the author of a renegade history of the united states and in oxford we go to shawn powers he's an assistant professor at georgia state university all right gentlemen this is crosstalk that means you can jump in anytime you want i always go to the person has to go early is for this program so i'm going to go to you thaddeus here and looking at what's happening to them the murdoch media empire and every hour that passes more revelations are coming out and it looks very very ugly does any of this surprise you and do you think it's going to be this is just the tip of the iceberg because murdoch and his people have a really sleazy reputation now we're getting evidence of it. well murdoch has always been hyper aggressive to distinguish himself that way in australia than in britain and here in the united states so you know i see no end to it but i would like to say i think this is a very.